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They had recently accompanied their erratic relative on a European trip and had learned to be patient under difficulties. A quarter of a mile down the dusty road they came to the hotel, a dismal, unclean looking place that smelled of stale beer. Uncle John routed out the proprietor. "Folks up?" he inquired. "Long ago," said the man.
All reason and strength slipped away as the world became level again, and it staggered forward unthinking, nothing more than a moth drawn by flame. Something unyielding blocked its path, and now it smelled food. It scratched feebly and let out a mournful growl. Then all sense faded, and if fell into the drifting snow.
Pauline did stoop her head, and the necklace was put in its place. The little diamond in the centre glittered as though it had a heart of fire. The flowers smelled sweet, but also heavy. Pauline was tired once again; but the music was resumed.
Somewhat to my surprise, the Ottawas listened with respect. I had apparently won some reputation among them, and without demur they took me to the chief. Longuant was squatting before his lodge. A piece of wood was laid across his lap, and he was chopping rank tobacco with a scalping knife. He smelled of oil, and smoke, and half-cured hides; yet he met me as a ruler meets an ambassador.
"The fight about the reservation, mostly. There's something wrong, you know, in a system of government that allows conditions like that. It's against American principles." His tone was oratorical, and Lydia was impressed. She forgot that Billy smelled of the barnyard. "Well," she said, "we'd all be proud of you if you were president, I can tell you." "Would you be!" Billy's voice was pleased.
The English rulers also, as much as they could, protected the women and men whom the lairds and preachers smelled out and tortured and burned for witchcraft. By way of compensation for the expenses of war all the estates of men who had sided with Charles were confiscated. Taxation also was heavy.
You ought to be ashamed of myself, and you should be muzzled. "Don't call me a female," said I, in my natural hoarse voice. "That is something that I will not submit to." The corporal looked up at me with one eye, the other being almost closed from the effects of the fall of the brick house. He looked as though he smelled woolen burning, as the old saying is.
Wade presented himself with something more than his usual methodical action. He smelled buffalo steak, and he was hungry. The cabin had been built years ago, and was a ramshackle shelter at best. The stone fireplace, however, appeared well preserved. A bed of red coals glowed and cracked upon the hearth. "Reckon I sure smelled buffalo meat," observed Wade, with much satisfaction.
At a distance of a third or a half a mile he could make out a goat or a mountain sheep, but beyond that his world was a vast sun-filled or night-darkened mystery through which he ranged mostly by the guidance of sound and smell. It was the sense of smell that held him still and motionless now. Up out of the valley a scent had come to his nostrils that he had never smelled before.
The second man, younger, slender, with a short red beard, leaned against the window, smelled the roses, and listened to the birds. The third, a man of forty, with a gentle manner and very honest and kindly eyes, studied the engravings. All three wore the stars of major-generals. The man from the Valley, entering, dropped his cloak and showed the same insignia.
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